I recall somebody on another post saying if we sign another ex-Jags coach they'd flip. Well here's that signing.

"Tice, 54, has ties to Falcons head coach Mike Smith as well as offensive coordinator Dirk Koetter. He was an assistant head coach on offense for the Jacksonville Jaguars (2006-09) when Smith was the defensive coordinator there (2003-07). Koetter was the Jaguars' offensive coordinator from 2007 to 2011."

Jay Cutler is no stranger to infighting with his coaching staff, be it with the Chicago Bears or Denver Broncos.

Cutler forced his way out of Denver after hearing reports that then-coach Josh McDaniels was working back channels to trade for Matt Cassel.

Prior to pitching that fit, Cutler reportedly reacted to the Broncos losing offensive coordinator Jeremy Bates to the college ranks by asking for a trade.

So it comes as no surprise that a major rift developed last season between the veteran quarterback and former Bears offensive coordinator Mike Tice. The communication between the two broke down to the point that backup quarterback Josh McCown was forced to serve as a "liaison," Comcast SportsNet Chicago reported.

"I was just talking to McCown this morning," Bears wide receiver Brandon Marshall said this week, "and one of the things we said is it's so cool to come to work where it's not one of those things where it's dreadful."

Cutler petulantly blew off Tice during an early season victory over the Dallas Cowboys, but both men insisted afterward that the incident was overblown. It's not clear why the two stopped talking or whether it was Cutler or Tice who instigated the freeze-out.

Cutler was portrayed as an immature diva in the 2006 book, "A Few Seconds of Panic," in which author Stefan Fatsis spent the summer as a kicker with the Broncos. It will be hard for Cutler to shed that reputation if he continues to feud with his coaches.

Fortunately for Bears fans, Cutler is getting along swimmingly with the new coaching staff.

Let's be honest Jay Cutler is a pain in the ass. He has been no matter where he has played and for whomever he has played with.

Tice was a decent HC at first. They had a top 10 offense for 3 of his years in Minny. When he was their OL coach before that they were a top 10 offense 3 out of 4 years. So he has some skills. Before Koetter came on board he had a top 10 offense in Jax.

In Chicago he had Cutler and Martz to work with. A couple of Jackasses. Ryan is so much better than Cutler, its funny. Tice has a tough guy attitude so this could be good.

Mike Tice was the OLine coach for the 98 Vikings, one of the most prolific offenses in the NFL as Jesus pointed out. Of course we beat them that year. He's had some pretty good lines through the years at different places.

As for someone saying if we hired another jax coach, it's not like that was where he got his start, or spent most of his career. He played for and learned from some pretty good coaches through the years. Knox, Bugle, Hannifan............

Now don't misread this into me thinking this is the greatest hiring in the history of the team, but I don't think it is going to be altogether bad either. Face it people, it can't be any worse, can it?

Let's be honest Jay Cutler is a pain in the ass. He has been no matter where he has played and for whomever he has played with.

Tice was a decent HC at first. They had a top 10 offense for 3 of his years in Minny. When he was their OL coach before that they were a top 10 offense 3 out of 4 years. So he has some skills. Before Koetter came on board he had a top 10 offense in Jax.

In Chicago he had Cutler and Martz to work with. A couple of Jackasses. Ryan is so much better than Cutler, its funny. Tice has a tough guy attitude so this could be good.

He really wanted the job so that should speak for something.

Tice isn't going to interact with Matt. He will coach the O-line, so any concern over him getting into tifts with a jackass QB is out the window here.

weren't there a couple ex Falcons offensive lineman on those chicago teams, guys we'd let go? Roberto Garza comes to mind, wasn't there another? I guess I could go look it up. HA that would be doing something when someone here probably knows off the top of his head

I'm originally from Chicago (born at Waukegan naval base when my Pops was in the navy) and even though I moved here at age 10 in 1980, my Pops is still a ridiculously diehard DaBears fan (and Notre Dame too, go figure).

The whole mess back then between Cutler and Tice was 1000% Cutler being a little bitch. Tice was the reasonable one through the whole thing.

That said, Tice is an in your face NASTY and fiery type of guy. Which is what we were looking for specifically, per TD's latest interviews. A coach that can bring back the "nasty" in our OL.

Tice's OL in Chicago was horrible, but none of those guys were his. It worries me though that he's stepping into a very similar situation here. Although this time it appears he might get some say-so in the scouting evaluation and selection process well before next season. This might give a little perspective, however:

Looks like Tice lost Pace and Tait as his two tackles from 2009, they drafted Chris Williams to play LT and the OL fell to complete shit. Rookie LT, LG moved to RT, RG moved to LG, and rookie RG inserted. (sounds somewhat familiar?) Then they drafted J'Marcus Webb to play LT and Gabe Carimi to play RT in 2011 and the OL was still shit with virtually 3 rookies on the OL.

New OL coach came in 2012 and again that OL was shit with a 2nd year LT, rookie LG, RG moved to C, 2nd year RG, and 2nd year RT. This is when they bring in 2 proven vets off FA, Bushrod and Slauson, and draft Jordan Mills to play RT and Kyle Long to play RG, both of which started all season and did excellent.

What this tells me is it's a lot to do with personnel. I mean Tice had some of the best OL's imaginable his entire time in Minny as the OL coach. It looks to me like he stepped into a pile of shit in Chicago. Which of course has me worried because he's stepping into a massive pile of shit here now too.

So I don't know what to think. He's definitely not a Jacksonville guy, so that's not a big deal to me. And Jacksonville actually had a REALLY good OL while he was there, but he wasn't even the OL coach, so it's irrelevant anyway.

I guess the main thing is we got to give him some new veteran personnel to work with.

Baker still has 5 years on his contract and $15.25M in dead money for 2014 (and $9.2M next year, $6.4M in 2016), so we're stuck with him for quite a while. He was a revolving door over at RG, so I don't know if they would put him at RT. And they surely aren't going to put him at RG or C.

Blalock still has 3 years on his contract and he's still got $7.28M of dead money in 2014 (and $4.12M in 2015, then under $1M in 2016). Which is ok I guess since he's our only consistent guy on the OL. But even still, he's pretty average. Maybe just a smidge above average. And he just turned 30.

My guess is Baker (if he can freaking stay healthy) and Blalock will continue to be our LT and LG. Baker actually does play very well when he's healthy. If we can get that Baker for a season, that would be huge.

Konz was by far a better RG than he was a Center. And even then I'm not sure he ends up a starter at either next year.

Hawley is not the Center of the future. He's just not. He played better than Konz for half the season there, but it was still bad.

I really think we bring in a veteran Center. I would love to go after Alex Mack. If we don't do this, then I just don't know. I'm sure we draft a C and see if he can compete with Hawley if we can't bring in a vet.

RG is a no-brainer. Somebody new will be playing there in 2014 and almost assuredly a veteran from FA. Maybe a Jon Asamoah from KC who's a beast and only 26. He's going to get a good size contract, and we can certainly afford him.

I think Konz goes to depth for C and RG and that's it. Hawley may do the exact same thing.

Garrett Reynolds is only $250k of dead money, so he's without a doubt gone.

Mike Johnson's contract is up and I seriously doubt we re-sign him. Same with Trueblood.

Schraeder's only chance to get re-signed is maybe LT depth behind Baker and Holmes maybe depth behind whomever the new OT is that we draft. Gunn is gone, he hasn't beaten out anyone in 2 years and everyone in front of him sucks, so he must suck even worse.